#People: The story of Fortunate Sithole
Fortunate Sithole has a story to tell. She shared a snippet of it with Biénne Huisman. Joyrene Kramer took the photographs.
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Doc explains healthcare for transgender people
Dr Anastacia Tomson outlines the barriers to adequate, safe and informed health care for transgender people.
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Stockout of Depo-Testosterone is life threatening
Depo-Testosterone, an affordable injectable hormone, has been out of stock in South Africa for more than three months. The shortage has been described as life-threatening. Karin Schimke reports.
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System-wide neglect of the transgender population
The recent stock-out of a hormone used in gender-affirming treatment for transgender men has revealed a system-wide neglect of a large sector of the South African population. Karin Schimke reports.
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Healthcare after the elections
Who will be South Africa’s next Minister of Health and what will be the impact of May’s national and provincial elections on South Africa’s ongoing health crisis?
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Lusikisiki push for condoms in schools
In Luskikisiki in the Eastern Cape girls as young as 11 years old are falling pregnant and becoming HIV-infected, prompting renewed calls by the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) that government condoms are distributed at primary schools. Biénne Huisman attended a community meeting in Lusikisiki.
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Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal Circulars on migrants may be a sign of things to come
The first few days of March 2019 must have been a time of great uncertainty for migrants in South Africa in need of health care services. Circulars by the Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal health departments said that all non-South Africans, other than refugees, would from now on have to pay in full for all health care…
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Artist colony paints dull picture for rural healthcare
With less than 2 000 residents, one small government clinic and the nearest hospital 40 kilometres away, Hamburg residents in the small Eastern Cape hamlet are under strain. By Kathryn Cleary.
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Strike terrifies mental health patients in North West
A group of workers staged a strike at Witrand psychiatric hospital in Potchefstroom trashing several sections in the facility and terrifying mental health patients.
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Will the President cure the health system?
Last year’s Presidential Health Summit was supposed to be a big step towards saving our health system. Last week was the release of a report on the summit. Is this the panacea the health system has been waiting for?
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Four healthcare priorities for South Africa’s budget
Russell Rensburg of the Rural Health Advocacy Project outlines four healthcare priorities for today’s critical budget.
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Make the health system, not health politics, a priority in this SONA
South Africa has been “on the brink” of major health system change for almost a decade. National Health Insurance (NHI) has been the buzz-phrase for years, but somehow it is still one of the most elusive policies of our time and it is made less tangible with each iteration of the policy. Sasha Stevenson and…
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